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    Remember folks, if you live in the Untied States, nothing is protecting you from being sent to supermax prison in El Salvador. Trump even said he’ll send citizens there

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        If they can paint her as a liberal, Republicans still won’t care.

        They already locked up a pretty, white, Canadian woman for almost two weeks. Crickets.

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      Oh, nonsense, there are many valid reasons! None of them are even the slightest bit ethical, I must confess, and most downright ghoulish, but valid they are.

      You’re a hopelessly corrupt judge, for example…

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      “Because our orange God-Emperor said so” not valid enough reason for ya? Too bad, it is for them, and I wish I was joking…

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      The reason is pretty simple, to see the reaction, and there isn’t a meaningful one. They will call it case closed, and it will be on to political opponents, dissenters, and anyone else they don’t like. They don’t need 45 billion to detain immigrants, they need that to detain you.

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      I think this is not a straightforward case as a matter of law, even though it is as a matter of justice. Generally, a court couldn’t reasonably order the US government to exfiltrate a person from a prison in a foreign country (even if he was there as a result of US government wrongdoing). This case is different because when the US government is paying the foreign country to keep that person in prison, the reasons why such an order would generally be unreasonable don’t apply.

      The question is, where do you draw the line between the general case and this specific case? What if, for example, El Salvador decides to do what presumably makes Trump happy rather than what he’s being ordered to ask for, and refuses to free this man despite an official request from the US? Can a court decide that the US needs to try harder? What if El Salvador stubbornly keeps refusing?

      We all know that this man would be back in the US if Trump wanted him back in the US, but how do you prove that?

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        The Supreme court has the authority to do whatever the fuck it wants actually. So yes, they absolutely can compell the executive branch to exfiltrate someone.

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        You know, people are regularly un-deported, right? Well at least they used to be… This is a thing that happens

        Also, El Salvador isn’t refusing… The Trump admin is refusing to ask. We’re literally paying them for this service - can the state say “sorry, we can’t release this person because they’re in a private prison, and that’s against our contract with them”. No, the contract can be invalidated and the state can be compelled to take reasonable action to fix it

        You can’t do a shell game to avoid court orders, and that’s exactly what the Trump admin is attempting

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    This is a disgrace. From an npr article I read about this the “evidence” of him being a gang member completely boiled down to because “we say he is.” They claim their “proof” can’t be elaborated on at all because it’s sensitive national security information when this clown show administration has literally been discussing confidential military strategies in fuckin Signal.

    They shit out the flimsiest of pretenses and their brainwashed base eats it up like it’s goddamn caviar. Nope, it’s literal shit.

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      I heard the NPR interview. Where the government said multiple judges said he was a member. If multiple judges ruled that then where’s the ruling? I was waiting for the interviewer to ask that question but it never came out. I could hear the frustration in her voice but still it seemed one sided.

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    A Justice Department lawyer conceded in a court hearing that Abrego Garcia should not have been deported. Attorney General Pam Bondi later removed the lawyer, Erez Reuveni, from the case and placed him on leave.

    AG needs to go back to that El Salvadorian jail and be incarcerated there, for the remainder of her life. Fuck this fascist fucking administration.

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    Something tells me it wasn’t a mistake, it was entirely intentional. USA is a hostile nation under its current leadership.

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    Not that pausing this is anything less than insane, but note that SCOTUS has recently given administrative stays and then ruled against Trump after that. Nothing is a given either way

    The fight isn’t over until it’s over. Don’t read this news and give in the doom and cynicism Trump wants us all to have. We can still fight back, and people are still fighting. 5 million were on the street on Saturday. There’s another nationwide 50501 protest on April 19th

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      I mean, I think a lot of those rulings against Trump have been after they would make any difference and are just being done to keep up the appearance that they’ll be some kind of check on him (which after the immunity ruling seems like a pretty insane thing to believe, but people really want it to be true so they’ll grasp at whatever this court gives them), and either way this court has been an unacceptable problem demanding reform since Citizens United, let alone Dobbs.

      The fight isn’t over until it’s over.

      This I 100% agree with. My point in bringing up how corrupt the court is is not to make people feel hopeless but rather to make them realize that things are not normal and we cannot just sit back and wait for an authority figure to come and save us. We have to fight back, but we can do that and we are. Like you said, 5 million were on the street on Saturday, and there’s another nationwide 50501 protest on April 19th, and I’m hoping it will be even bigger.

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    The majority on the court can’t even justify this idiotic ruling, it’s not even consistent with their prior ones.

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    In 1868, British Prime Minister William Gladstone famously said, “Justice delayed is justice denied.” The phrase has often been repeated here in the United States, most famously by the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., who echoed it in his 1963 “Letter from a Birmingham Jail”: “Justice too long delayed is justice denied.”

    It’s not like this badministration didn’t have ample notice that there was an injunction prohibiting his deportation - it was issued in 2019. The guy was never charged with any crimes, and no one has any evidence of him being tied to any gangs. Should he ever find himself outside of the prison, he should have a pretty clear cut civil case against the VP for slander and the administration for wrongful imprisonment without due process.

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      Interesting… That’s exactly Trump’s discourse from 2020 when he refused to admit defeat to Biden. Back then this attitude was parroted as “a threat to democracy”. Now, in 2025, it’s fair game saying his government is illegitimate?

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    Y’all don’t get it. The courts have a purpose as long as they’re seen as legitimate. If they issue an order and the state ignores it and the police don’t enforce it, they will appear as impotent and lose all legitimacy. They prefer to pretend and maintain what little power they have.